Amazing Cliffs of Norway: Adrenaline Junkies’ Paradise [33 PICS]

Another name for Preikestolen is Pulpit Rock. The natural rock formation is a huge Norwegian tourist attraction. The almost flat cliff is 25 by 25 meters (82 by 82 feet) with a sheer drop of over 600 meters (1982 feet) into the fjord (Lysefjord) below. Photo #2 by Ken Douglas

Rare sight to behold, an almost deserted Lysefjord – Preikestolen. It’s located in Rogaland, Norway. Photo #3 by Mercy

Yet another name for Preikestolen cliff is “The Preacher’s Pulpit.” The best season to hike the intensely trail up to Preacher’s Pulpit is from April to October. Photo #4 by Alex Berger

This spectacular scene is like a view from the top of the world. Right outside the frame to the right is the Pulpit Rock. Photo #5 by Eivind K. Døvik

Cairn near The Preacher’s Pulpit aka Preikestolen. These cairns are man-made piles of stones and are located all over the place in and around the crazy cliffs of Norway. Photo #6 by Alex Berger

Here’s a little Preikestolen trivia. A couple who met on the Internet, formed a suicide pact, so in February 2000, this Austrian woman and Norwegian man committed a joint suicide by jumping together off the cliff. Another couple must have thought it was a good idea, but in 2004, Norwegian authorities stopped a young German couple before they could jump off the cliff to commit suicide. Photo #8 by Alex Berger

Some folks adore cliffs, like the owers of these two cool houses right outside Jøssingfjord in Norway. They are located right under an overhanging cliff! Photo #9 by Eivind K. Dovik

This crazy cliff is actually of rock that juts out horizontally from the mountain above Odda, Norway. It called Trolltunga, but it too has more than one name. Photo #10 by TerjeN

Yet another intense cliff is Brünnich’s Guillemot (Uria lomvia) at bird cliff of Stappen, southern Bjørnøya (Bear Island) in the Barents Sea. The island is part of Svalbard, Norway. Those are actual birds flying off the cliff, but as you will see a bit later, birds are not the only creatures that soar off these crazy cliffs of Norway. Photo #14 by Michael Haferkamp

Hornelen in Norway is the highest sea cliff in all of Europe. According to Wikipedia, “At 860 meters (2,820 ft), it is the highest sea cliff in Europe, and has for a long time been used as a landmark for naval navigation. The horizontal distance from the summit to the sea shore is approximately 500 meters (1,600 ft).” Photo #15 by Jesper Hauge

This is Troll wall in Norway. It’s the tallest cliff in all of Europe and an extremely famous spot for BASE jumpers from around the world. This shot, as seen from across the Romsdal valley, features Trolltindene peaks and the north facing Troll Wall. Trollveggen is part of the Reinheimen National Park. Troll Wall is the tallest vertical rock face in Europe, measuring about 1,100 meters (3,600 ft) from its base to the summit of its highest point. At its steepest point, the summit ridge overhangs the base of the wall by nearly 50 meters (160 ft). Photo #16 by Mountain Master

Troll Mountains. According to Wikipedia, “In 1984, Carl Boenish, the ‘father’ of BASE jumping, was killed on the Troll Wall shortly after setting the world record for the highest BASE jump in history. BASE jumping from Troll Wall has been illegal since 1986.” Photo #18 by Jørgen Falck

If you aren’t a troll and you want to get around, you might consider traveling Trollstigen road – which of course has another name – the Troll’s Path. Be ready for a different sort of adrenaline rush by roads such as Trollstigen which has steep incline of 9% and eleven hairpin bends up the steep side of mountain. At the top, there’s fantastic view and the 320m Stigfossen Waterfall roaring down the mountainside. Photo #20 by wstera2

Invisible Audience: The photographer wrote, “At the Kjeragbolten the rocks fall over 1000m straight down to the fjord. We came to this amazing place at 8 p.m. – just when the sun was disappearing behind the mountains. The chairs where from a group of Germans that hiked up there to spend the night on the edge of the precipice.” Photo #21 by monoceros84

If you want to yet another insane cliff in Norway then you’ll probably need to travel Lysebotn Road in Lysefjord. It has 27 switchbacks and a 1.1 kilometer long tunnel at the bottom that has three switchbacks inside the tunnel. Of course you want to travel it, cause you are building up the daredevil need for adrenaline. Photo #22 by Stefan Jonsson via DarkRoastedBlend

Because there are so many cliffs and glaciated valleys, Norway is packed with majestic waterfalls. This one is “tiny” in Lysebotn, Norway but on the way to Kjerag. Photo #23 by Leo-setä

Here’s the view of Lysebotn, Norway, after you’ve made it up the insanely crazy and dangerous Lysebotn Road. Photo #24 by Leo-setä

Here’s a man standing on Kjeragbolten – Kjerag boulder is wedged into a mountain crevasse in west Norway along the Lysefjord. Because Preikestolen is so crowded, Kjerag has become a popular hiking and climbing destination. You don’t need equipment to walk out onto the rock, but there is a direct 1000 m drop below down to Lysefjorden. Kjeragbolten means “Kjerag Boulder” or “Kjerag Bolt.” Photo #25 by Padraic Woods

One more reason to love photographers. Many will do anything to get their shot. Here is one brave soul set on capturing the view from Kjerag. At its highest point, Kjerag is 1110 m above sea level. The northern drop to Lysefjorden attracts the most visitors. There the drop is 984 m (3,228 ft). Photo #26 by Adam Blicharski

You wouldn’t want to fall without a wingsuit or parachute strapped on. BASE jumpers flock to Kjerag. Wikipedia does not have current numbers, but “in the period 1994 to 2008 29,000 jumps were performed.” Photo #27 by kalevkevad

Why would you want to visit Norway? There’s probably a million reasons, but the video shows one of the more popular reasons. The sport BASE jumping continues to grow, becoming more popular as more people are bitten with need to try out such an adrenaline rush.

these people are crazy. If you want adrenaline high, why don’t you go to Syria to fight Assad alongside brave people of Syria. The adrenaline shot is much higher and you are at least helping a cause and freeing people, instead of wasting your time jumping off cliffs.

Why would you want people to go risk their lives fighting in wars just for an adrenaline rush when they could just have fun and enjoy the life that they have. Yes, in both people are risking their life but one is for fun and one is for safety of others. They chose that life style so don’t try to tell other people what to do. How about we don’t have wars and every can do things that they love?

Well, at 2 metres tall and about 115kg, anything with a parachute hasn’t grabbed my attention to want to try it (ha! I’d need a chute big enough to stop the damn space shuttle), but that doesn’t stop me enjoying looking at the wonderful photographs and watching the video clip.

Woke up on the floor last night after watching “The office” and thought I would browse for a while. After watching the base jumper I went to the fridge and had 2 sandwiches with cheese and salami and gulped 2 big mountain dews. I then went back to bed and fell asleep. And that is what I call fun.

That video is terrible. Not everyone can BASE jump if they just want to. If a anybody jumped off that cliff who doesn’t know how to fly his or her body like a skydiver would in a track or delta position, they would kill themselves.

To whoever made this page: Please for the love of God do not try to do this. You will die. I pinky promise. Sorry, you just sound like an idiot in your descriptions of these pictures and videos.